THV...pictures of the inside!! **ADDED more pix first post**

[liznboys]

Found this on the resorts board:
http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=30691505&postcount=3

Finally a view of the inside! Look at the view of the river from those windows!! I am so stinkin' excited to stay there. I actually had a dream about the THV the other night. lol :yay:

Oh yeah, I wish she had taken a picture of the master shower/tub "thing"!


**ADDED**
Here are some more interior pictures...link posted on Tim's site:
http://dvcnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=845&Itemid=1

[twinklebug]

Thanks for the heads up.

Interesting choice of lighting in the kitchen (the lights seem to emit more light toward the camera than down to the counters) & I'm not so sure I would have gone with the dark wood paneling like they did - but we all know Disney designers will make it work. Hey, I like VWL & the cabins.

ETA: I understand that these are pre-fab units, but what troubles me is that Disney went out of their way to use what looks like cheap materials with a few special touches added.

Just from the pics I see (the most obvious point) Wood paneling. Sorry but even for my own kid's tree house this would be the last thing I think of adding;

The counter top looks as though it is tossed onto the counter, ignoring that the corners are at eye height for many rambunctious children;

The lighting in the kitchen is wrong wrong wrong. Sorry, but when I'm using a knife in the kitchen I want the lighting focused on the work areas in the kitchen, not the overall room;

... and, not a cheap addition, but what's with the rails on the stairs???

Hm. I'll have to try them for a week to decide if I still like them. ;)

[ShuisFan584]

Thanks for posting! I'm so excited about THV. My parents own at SSR, so we'll be able to book 11 months out. We'll definitely be staying here once we have kids and we take a trip with grandma and grandpa!

[RachelTori]

Found this on the resorts board:
http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=30691505&postcount=3

Finally a view of the inside! Look at the view of the river from those windows!! I am so stinkin' excited to stay there. I actually had a dream about the THV the other night. lol :yay:

Oh yeah, I wish she had taken a picture of the master shower/tub "thing"!

:woohoo: Thanks, Liz!! Makes it more "real" doesn't it?!! :goodvibes


AHHHHHHHHHHHH - I'm getting sick already looking at that 1960's panelling in/around the kitchen.

I think it fits perfectly with the theme. Certainly not what we'd choose for our own kitchens, but for a treehouse - I like it!!! :thumbsup2

[tink,too]

Thanks for the link to the pics. :) The THV's look fabulous - can't wait to stay there in the future! :goodvibes

[paults]

AHHHHHHHHHHHH - I'm getting sick already looking at that 1960's panelling in/around the kitchen.

me too, looks like one of our old rooms form wayyyyyy back. Hope it looks better up close.

[mmcguire]

AHHHHHHHHHHHH - I'm getting sick already looking at that 1960's panelling in/around the kitchen.

ITA. The outside looks pretty yuck too, IMHO. We stayed in a round condo in the NC mountains about 10 yrs ago, and it looked exactly like this - woefully outdated even then. Blech! Wood paneling is not a good look, no matter how you spin it.

[Liljam]

Thanks for finding this link!

I have a request for TREEHOUSE ON WATER EDGE on my ressie although MS said they have no idea what sort of requests they'll even end up with. I'm also going to request NEAR CH too! I LOVE LOVE LOVE that water view though, so pretty!

As for the panels in the kitchen, I think it fits. I saw it at first and was a little put off by it, but it is a TREE house. I suppose they could have put more "tree" looking boards up, but for cost, paneling will be just fine. Everything else in there looks like it fits nice for the theme. The woods feel is cool, the lattern lamps hanging down, the stone shower surrounds, all of it gives off a nice woodsy appeal so I am quite happy to be booked there! Plus having a charcoal grill on each deck is a plus too if you like to do cook outs! For us, that's gonna be great!

[liznboys]

:woohoo: Thanks, Liz!! Makes it more "real" doesn't it?!! :goodvibes

Yes it does!!

I think it fits perfectly with the theme. Certainly not what we'd choose for our own kitchens, but for a treehouse - I like it!!! :thumbsup2

Me too!

Thanks for finding this link!

I have a request for TREEHOUSE ON WATER EDGE on my ressie although MS said they have no idea what sort of requests they'll even end up with. I'm also going to request NEAR CH too! I LOVE LOVE LOVE that water view though, so pretty!

As for the panels in the kitchen, I think it fits. I saw it at first and was a little put off by it, but it is a TREE house. I suppose they could have put more "tree" looking boards up, but for cost, paneling will be just fine. Everything else in there looks like it fits nice for the theme. The woods feel is cool, the lattern lamps hanging down, the stone shower surrounds, all of it gives off a nice woodsy appeal so I am quite happy to be booked there! Plus having a charcoal grill on each deck is a plus too if you like to do cook outs! For us, that's gonna be great!

I am with you, LOVE LOVE LOVE that water view!! :cool1: I didn't put any requests on our reservation...thought about it and just didn't do it. Might do it later though...

[Donna M]

For the people who don't like it they won't have to go and that leaves more availability for us!

[RLRDA]

I think it fits perfectly with the theme. Certainly not what we'd choose for our own kitchens, but for a treehouse - I like it!!! :thumbsup2

Agreed! I'm looking forward to staying in one in the future :goodvibes !

[PatsMom]

I'm hoping that at some point my step daughter and her husband and our grandson will join us on a trip. Then I could justify the points to a treehouse! I'd love to stay there but with just three of us (or just me and DH most of the time next year) I just can't justify the points!

[auntsue]

It looks really huge! We like our privacy so I don't see it in our future, but good luck to all who are able to book it.

[mamaprincess]

I am so mad that we are out of SSR 2009 points! We'll have to wait until 2010 until we go.:sad2: I think they are going to be super cool to stay in especially with a view of the water. I love boat transportation the most so I can't wait to take the boat from there to Downtown Disney. It should be a gorgeous ride. We also always drive, so we don't have to be anywhere near to anything for convenience sake. Another thing I will look forward to is the trees. We live in a new neighborhood so one of the drawbacks is little in the way of trees.

[JustSayin]

These pictures don't have that great of quality. I think it will likely look better in person than it does in these poorly lit photos.

[utahkennedys]

When I showed my DH he thought they were old pics from before they were torn down, lol!

[jblrn2b]

AHHHHHHHHHHHH - I'm getting sick already looking at that 1960's panelling in/around the kitchen.


LOL :rotfl2: I was thinking the same thing!

[S. C.]

might be gators and snakes in those woods. :scared1:

[Goofys*Gal]

What is this, the slam THV thread? :confused: I mean, come on, let's give it a chance! It's a treehouse -- made of wood!! Disney always does a great job with theming. Let's trust they got it right this time too.

And if you don't like it, then I guess you don't need to stay there. :rolleyes1

[twinklebug]

What is this, the slam THV thread? :confused: I mean, come on, let's give it a chance! It's a treehouse -- made of wood!! Disney always does a great job with theming. Let's trust they got it right this time too.

And if you don't like it, then I guess you don't need to stay there. :rolleyes1

Who's slamming? We're making observations that help to improve. :love: I love both the FtW cabins and VWL. They're dark and covered with wood paneling. Somehow though, I thought in the year 2009 Disney would have a more modernized vision of what a tree house could be than this.

BTW - I do intend on staying in a THV eventually, wood paneling or not, I just need the extended family to join us to make it worth it. Besides, when in "The World", I doubt many people would be sitting in the tree house staring at the walls all day saying "Wow, that's some ugly wood paneling there." :rotfl:

[liznboys]

I added another link with more interior pictures to my first post. :)

[liznboys]

So now we see a better view of that master shower/tub setup (http://hotels.about.com/od/disneyworld/ig/Disney-s-Treehouse-Villas/Master-Bathoom.htm)....
I just find that so interesting having the tub basically inside the shower. I've never seen that before anywhere.

[WALTSAGOD]

AHHHHHHHHHHHH - I'm getting sick already looking at that 1960's panelling in/around the kitchen.

Uuuuhhh, yea!:scared1: :scared1:

[buzz5985]

What you are looking at is not really paneling. Paneling was a laminate board - like the fake floors people put in and call hardwood floors. What your referring to looks like actual wood boards. It reminds me of the look of the kitchens at HHI, but their cabinets are pickled green and have different hardware. The lighting looks open on the bottom, so the light will be directed outward and downward. Half of the pictures on about.com were computer generated.

I predict that less than 50% of the people that stay at the THV will return for another trip. It's going to be too isolated, too creepy at night, too much brush along the waters edge, someone will see a snake and freak, etc. When we stayed at the original - my DN was so creeped out at age 9, she had to sleep with me and DH hit the couch.

I think they look awesome. I can't wait to stay there.

[Liljam]

Thanks for adding another link. The pictures make me so excited about staying there! The tub/shower combo is going to be pretty interesting. We're booked for Feb. 2010 so I don't know how the bugs/snakes/gators will be, but I'm sure that some people will be freaked out by the woods. I think our family may love the THVs so much that this may be our first choice from here on out. I keep looking at the pictures and I'm not at all put off by the theme. I think that, so far, they're all I've expected them to be. I can't wait until June to see pics of guests actually using them!

[JaxDisneyFans]

Thanks for the pics!!

[sgtdisney]

I think they look pretty good. Fairly reminicent of the originals, but updated, and larger from what I can tell. I stayed in the original treehouses a number of times when I was kid with my family, and then bought into OKW in '92 and never stayed there again.

They were a lot of fun. I am glad Disney re-built them and didn't just tear them down and abandon the area. They do appear to be lower to the ground than the originals, and of course, do not have that room on the ground level. I miss the spiral staircase in the center of the unit. I wonder if the peacocks will still be there. We always would have a peacock on our deck every morning putting on a show with their tail feathers, ever time we stayed in the 80s.